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NBA Picks: Bulls vs. Celtics

The Bulls go to Bean Town and will try to continue they recent domination of the Boston Celtics. Let's pick apart the odds and find a winning free pick to take to the books.

NBA Picks: Bulls
vs. Celtics

One of
our better matchups in the NBA this evening is the Celtics hosting one of their
main Eastern Conference rivals, the Bulls. NBA Odds for this game were a little late
coming out, but now the Bulls sit as +3 ½ underdogs this evening. Both teams
have a key guy banged up, so let’s take a look at the injury situation, and see
if it will or has already affected this spread.

The most significant injury for the Bulls is
definitely Luol Deng, who strained his hamstring in the Bulls game against the
Raptors. However, Deng was able to play 48 minutes in the game, and score 19
points. He hasn’t yet tested his hamstring, and he is listed as a game time
decision.

If Deng
can’t play, that puts a serious damper on my free pick for this game, so make sure
he plays before taking the points with Chicago. On the other side, the Celtics
are dealing with a rib injury to Avery Bradley.

Bradley
suffered a bruise and did not practice yesterday. He also seems like a game
time decision for this one. Both Deng and Bradley are key defenders on their
respective teams.

Chicago has
covered in six of the last eight meetings with Boston, and now as underdogs
on the road, I see some good value. However, if Deng cannot play, I’m laying
off the Bulls. If he plays, go ahead and take the three points, but if Deng
comes down to being out in this game, I’m not touching it and you should take
your NBA betting in different direction as well.